Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the tip of his razor-cut hair to the toes of his orange (or pink or avocado) patent-leather golf shoes, Sanders is a confirmed, color-coordinated kook. Twice married and twice divorced, he is wildly superstitious, mildy neurotic, engagingly extraverted and outrageously hedonistic. Women? "I'm afraid...
Metaphysical Mystery. The reader is told nothing of Y's origin or personality; he is an abstraction. There are no women in the novel, and sex is never mentioned. Just before the trial scene, however, the book offers a few clues to Y's wherefore. Y admits to...
The Harvard SDS representative claimed that SDS and SNCC have a greater influence on the Party than the Communists have on them. "We wouldn't dream of asking the Communists to leave SDS," he continued, "because we feel it is important for our membership to come in contact with Communists...
Workaday Folk. Many musicians, of course, disagree-hysterically and compulsively at times. They say they are just workaday folk, subject to the same strains and stresses as anyone else. Nevertheless, prolonged study of orchestra players suggests a curious collection of traits, neurotic or otherwise. The result, however arbitrary, is a...
Harvard evokes a mixed reaction from the Wellesley girls. The questionnaire drew such descriptions as "stuffy phonies, pompous, self-centered, neurotic, and holier-than-thou," although a good three-quarters of the girls prefer dating boys from Harvard than any other school. Despite these unkindnesses, Wellesley girls did have some...